The Deputy Director of IT of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Rashid Tanko Computer has said that the party’s officers will spend the rest of the night to review the Provisional Voters’ Register handed to them by the Electoral Commission barely 24 hours to the exhibition exercise.
According to him, this exercise is crucial in order to identify any discrepancies in the electoral roll.
“We received the register this morning (August 19) after we insisted on it. We will scrutinise it throughout the night to see if there are any anomalies,” he told Alfred Ocansey in an interview on August 19.
This comes after officials of the NDC had criticised the Chairman of the Electoral Commission Mrs Jean Mensa of denying them access to the vital elections document even as the date for the exhibition got closer.
The exhibition of the provisional register is to afford the Commission, the opportunity to remove names of deceased individuals and persons with multiple registration from register and compile a more credible voter album for the December 7 polls.
Earlier, the Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Services at the Electoral Commission, Dr Eric Bossman Asare said the exhibition exercise will take place on Tuesday August 20, 2024 at all Polling Stations in the country after successfully registering 92,350 qualified voters in the mop-up exercise.
According to Bossman Asare, hard drives containing data of the provisional register are now ready and that the NDC has already taken delivery of theirs as at Monday morning. He explained that the delay by the Commission is still within the legal framework.
Bossman Asare indicated that “In the CI, the law allows the Commission to make the register available not later than three months after the compilation. So, the Commission is well within the law, but we have tried to be sure that the parties get it in advance.”
“The registers are ready. One of the main parties has collected the register, others are also around to take it,” he said.
